Biography Betty Stoner

The following is from The Journal of San Diego HistorySAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLYSummer 1986, Volume 32, Number 3Thomas L. Scharf, Editor

b. Chattanooga, Tennessee August 30, 1906 (currently residing in Townsend, Montana)After a brief period in the Los Angeles area, Betty Shropshire moved to San Diego with her family in 1916. She took art instruction from the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts under Eugene De Vol and Otto H. Schneider from 1926 to 1929. While at the Academy she met John L. Stoner, and together they operated a commercial art business called the Graphic Studio beginning in the late 1920s.

John and Betty were married in May of 1930, and together they traveled and painted in th
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